Chapter 37
I bit my lip, resolving myself firmly.
Kill or be killed.
If the world is harsh, you need to become more vicious than the world to survive, not love.
I’m a psychopath. I don’t have emotions.
“Chief monk. I’ve been thinking about what happens when humans die.”
“Is that so…”
Since this monster can only live by parasitizing others’ bodies, its main body must be as weak as an insect.
I swung my knife at the parasitic monster.
“What… is this…”
The kneeling old man turned his back.
Looking at the body revealed through the torn robe, I thought.
My guess was right.
It was a parasitic monster!
“…The chief monk was right.”
What comes after that doesn’t matter, what’s important is surviving now.
“How dare a human…!”
The parasitic monster finally revealed its true colors.
I stabbed my knife towards it.
At that moment.
“What… are you doing right now?”
I hurriedly turned around at the sudden young voice.
I saw Choi Yudam standing, gripping the temple hall door.
The usually calm boy was wide-eyed, seemingly shocked.
“Damn… Talk about timing.”
“Chief! Chief Monk!”
He cried out loudly and ran towards the fallen chief monk.
“No! Don’t get close!”
As I reached out to stop him, I instinctively pulled my hand back, sensing something eerie.
The boy swung his knife-wielding hand almost simultaneously.
If I had been a moment slower, my arm would have been sliced by that blade.
“Ch-Choi Yudam-nim?”
Leaving the fallen head monk behind, the boy glared at me with blazing eyes.
“I trusted you… I trusted and accepted you, and this is how you betray me?”
His eyes were tinged with an ominous blue light.
Could he have awakened?
‘Choi Yudam! View character information!’
[(Messenger) You do not have permission to view information on this character.]
Damn it! Why?
But before I could think further, the boy’s blade came at me again.
This time, it was a strike aimed precisely at my left heart.
As I stepped back to dodge, I hurriedly reached into my hip pouch and pulled out a wind-attribute magic stone.
As a blue light enveloped it, the magic stone crumbled to ash.
The boy changed direction and attacked me again, but this time he was blocked by an opaque white barrier.
“Damn…!”
‘Choi Yudam’s eyes…?’
The boy’s entire eyes were glowing blue.
Gone was his usual gentle face, replaced by something almost demonic.
“Weren’t you supposed to contract with Gandharva, the god of music and healing?! What’s going on here?!”
“Yudam-ah…”
It was then that a faint voice was heard.
The raging boy’s movements stopped for a moment.
“Yudam-ah. Lee Yudam… Come to me… Come closer…”
‘What? Lee Yudam?!’
Before I could stop him in my shock, Yudam quickly ran to the fallen head monk.
A wrinkled, thin hand grasped the boy’s gray robe.
“Yudam… I remember when you were abandoned as an orphan in front of the temple…”
At those words, tears fell from Yudam’s eyes, still tinged with an ominous light.
“You idiot! Get away!”
I shouted loudly.
It had been several minutes since my knife stabbed that thing.
There’s no way a human could still be alive after that!
“That man is not the chief monk you know! It’s just a parasitic monster wearing his shell!”
“Stop! Don’t insult the chief monk any…”
Lee Yudam couldn’t finish his sentence.
He looked down at his own stabbed stomach with an unbelieving expression.
Blood gushed from the boy’s mouth.
The chief monk standing behind him held a knife and giggled.
“Chi…ef…”
Lee Yudam fell to his knees.
“Since… when…”
“When? From the beginning! Since April 1st when our great king, Asura, arrived!”
Tears that had been welling up in Lee Yudam’s eyes fell as he watched this scene.
The parasite in the guise of the head monk burst into mocking laughter at him.
“Foolish humans! You trust others based solely on appearances! That’s why you’re inferior and walking the path of extinction!”
Lee Yudam dropped his head.
Judging by the blood trickling from his mouth, he seemed to have bitten the inside of his mouth, unable to contain his anger.
His blood-soaked lips moved, and a low voice emerged.
“…I will kill you.”
A majestic thunder sound was heard from somewhere.
Along with it, a faint divine figure appeared behind the bowed Lee Yudam.
I gasped in surprise for a moment.
That enormous goddess figure was, how should I put it, like an incarnation of vengeance against evil gods.
She wore a necklace made of demon heads and a skirt made of demon hands.
The black-skinned body had four arms.
In her right hands, she held a demon’s head and a plate, and in her left, a sickle and trident to annihilate enemies.
It was my first time seeing a contract scene with a god directly.
I screamed inwardly in shock.
‘That’s a god? Isn’t it more like a demon?!’
The third eye embedded in the forehead of the dark blue face, and the long black tongue added to its grotesqueness.
[(Messenger) Indra solemnly admonishes, ‘Well, she is indeed a god.’]
I tried to control my involuntarily trembling body and shouted inwardly.
[(Messenger) < Standard Avatar Contract >]
[Kali (hereinafter referred to as ‘Party A’) and Lee Yudam (hereinafter referred to as ‘Party B’) hereby enter into the following Guardian Deity-Avatar contract.
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Contract period: From 00/00/0000 until the salvation of humanity.
Place of work: The mortal realm
Compensation: The ability to wield the powers of Goddess Kali. In return, the avatar must dedicate body and soul to the annihilation of evil gods.
(…)]
‘Dedicate body and soul…?’
Is this a contract with a god or with a devil?
The contracts I’d seen before didn’t have such extreme clauses.
As I was shocked, the divine figure faded and a long line appeared on Lee Yudam’s forehead.
As the line widened sideways revealing the whites of his eyes, his pupils began to roll upwards.
[(Messenger) Indra warns that once Kali begins her dance of destruction, she won’t stop until everything around her is destroyed.]
“Kali! You dare interfere with the great Asura’s path again!”
The head monk, no, the parasitic monster shouted.
At the same time, the temple hall door burst open and monks in robes poured in.
They clearly didn’t look normal.
It seemed the larvae implanted by that parasite were controlling their brains.
Lee Yudam leaped towards them with a strange battle cry.
It was a very one-sided battle.
Blue mana extended from Lee Yudam’s small knife, shattering the temple floor where it struck.
The destructive power was tremendous.
‘To have this much power right after awakening…’
I felt a chill watching Yudam’s dance with the knife.
“Noah!”
Just then, Baek Yi-heon burst into the temple hall.
“I was delayed trying to save the people left in the temple.”
At that moment, having instantly dispatched all the parasitic monsters, Lee Yudam finally rushed towards the head monk.
I quickly shouted.
“No! Stop him!”
Baek Yi-heon glared at the head monk who was still somehow alive and retorted.
“That head monk seems to be the root of this situation. Isn’t he?”
“…Even so, we can’t let Lee Yudam kill him with his own hands.”
Why?
As I was surprised by the words that came out of my own mouth.
[(Messenger) At last, you have learned to feel sorrow for human suffering.]
The god’s voice descended like a bolt of lightning.
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